Time: 5:00 PM
Speaker Bio: Co-founder and CEO of Every. Prolific writer on AI transformation. Leads with just 15 people generating 7-figure revenue.
Speaker Profile: Full Speaker Profile
Company: Every publishes daily AI newsletters, ships multiple AI products, runs a consulting arm—all with virtually zero hand-written code by engineers. Uses AI agents in parallel.
Focus: Radical AI-first operations. How to rethink workflows when agents become force multipliers. Applicable to both startups and legacy companies.
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Notes
- 6 business units
- 4 software projects
- 15 full time employees
- 7000+ paying subscribers
- Each app is built by single developer
- Cora - AI email management app
- Work on multiple features and bugs in parallel
- Because code is cheap you get to try different ideas
- Echo engineering processes from the past
- Traditional Engineering — each feature makes it harder
- Compounding Engineering — each feature makes the next feature easier
Process
- Plan
- Delegate
- Assess
- Codify
- Turn your tacit knowledge into a collection of prompts for your orgs to use
- New hires are productive on their first day
- Developers can commit to other products not their own
- Managers can commit code
- “AI permits engineers to work with fractured attention”
- “Non-obvious second-order effects once you adopt it”
5:20 PM — swyx & Ben Dunphy (AI Engineer) - Closing Remarks